What is an inference?
a. a guess
b. an educated guess
c. an interpretation
What is an b. an educated guess?
100
The river, a long and blue snake, slithered through town.
What is a metaphor?
100
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It was time for the weekly fifth-grade bolleyball game, an inevitible scene of mental anguish for me.
What change needs to be made in the sentence?
a. Delete the comma
b. change inevitible to inevitable
c. change scene to seen
d. no change needed.
What is b. change inevitible to inevitable.
100
No team wanted the girl who dropped the ball, tripped over her own feet, and misses the easy serves.
What change needs to be made in the sentence?
a. insert a comma after girl
b. change tripped to she trips
c. change misses to missed
d. change serves to serve's
What is c. change misses to missed
100
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What is the difference between "you're" and "your"?
What is you're is the contraction for you are and your shows possession.
200
Nancy comes home from her date, runs to her bedroom and slams the door.
What can you infer about her date?
a. The date went well.
b. Nancy's date hurt her feelings.
c. Nancy did not have a good time on her date.
d. Nancy's date never showed up.
What is c. Nancy did not have a good time on her date.
200
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The wind whispered in my ear as I walked home.
What is personification?
200
My friend Amanda who is really tall plays basketball.
What is put a comma after "Amanda" and after "tall"?
200
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My mom's oldest sister Aunt Karen, needed some help at her real estate office and offered me a part-time job.
What change needs to be made in the sentence?
a. No change
b. insert a comma after sister
c. insert a comma after help
d. insert a comma after office
What is b. insert a comma after sister.
200
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What is the difference between "its" and "it's"?
What is "its" is the possessive form of "it", and "it's" is the contraction for "it is"
300
Read this line from paragraph 11.
(Blissfully ignorant, as opposed
to painfully aware ignorant.)
This line suggests that at age 12 the author was —
A unaware of how much happiness he was missing
B aware of how difficult being an adult can be
C too young to be aware of his lack of knowledge
D happy not to know too much
What is C. too young to be aware of his lack of knowledge.
300
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My eyes widened at the sight of the mile-high sundaes we were having for dessert.
What is hyperbole?
300
Which of the following sentences is punctuated
correctly?
a. The bookstore had to move its collection of
children’s books.
b. The bookstore had to move it’s collection
of childrens’ books.
c. The bookstore had to move its’ collection
of children’s books.
d. The bookstore had to move its’ collection
of childrens’ books.
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What is a. The bookstore had to move its collection of children's books.
300
Rewrite the sentence using one of the coordinating conjunctions.
The driver lost the map. The driver found the
house anyway.
a. and
b. but
c. or
What is b.
The driver lost the map, but found the house anyway.
300
What is the difference between "loose" and "lose"?
What is "loose" means not fitting tightly or closely while "lose" means to misplaced or taken away.
400
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The wind was strong and the rain was heavy, but the foreigner held up one of his massive hands to protect the small gift safely tucked onto the palm of the other.
What is the mostly likely reason why the author includes this description of the foreigner's actions?
a. to demonstrate how valuable the gift is to him
b. to reveal that he is hesitant to accept the gift
c. to suggest that the wind and rain have isolated him
d. to illustrate how much he wants to be accepted
What is a. to demonstrate how valuable the gift is to him.
400
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It’s no wonder everyone refers to Jenny as another Mother Teresa in the making; she loves to help and care after people everywhere- from the streets to her own friends.
a. allusion
b. alliteration
c. anecdote
d. archetype
What is a. allusion?
400
After the accident happened in front of the
school.
a. sentence
b. fragment
c. run-on
What is b. fragment
400
What are the two ways to join two complete sentences?
What is with a comma and a fanboy or a semi-colon.
400
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What is the difference between their, there, and they're?
What is their shows possession, there shows location, and they're is a contraction for they are
500
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Read this sentence from the selection.
But what I actually believe is that this
cheesy trinket was placed by someone
at the orphanage.
The tone of this sentence can best be described as —
A conversational
B threatening
C contemptuous
D unemotional
What is c. contemptuous?
500
The overall feeling a reader gets from a piece of writing.
a. theme
b. mood
c. attitude
d. tone
What is mood?
500
The United Nations Organization was ……………………… in 1945 with the objective of averting another major world war.
a. fount
b. found
c. founded
What is c. founded
500
This must be true of two sentences to join them by a semicolon (;).
What is they must be related and both independent.
500
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What is the difference between whose and who's?
What is who’s is a contraction of “who is” while whose shows possession and means that it belongs to someone.